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Trump Blocks Housing Bill Signing Over Voter ID Demand, Putting CBDC Ban in Limbo

President Trump canceled the signing ceremony for the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes a statutory ban on a Federal Reserve-issued CBD...

Sophon Shuts Down Its zkSync Chain and Rebuilds as a Consumer App Studio on Base

Sophon is decommissioning its zkSync-based Layer 2 chain and pivoting to Soph+, a consumer product studio building exclusively on Base. The shutdown c...

Base Resumes Block Production After Roughly Two-Hour Mainnet Halt

Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 Base stalled block production for about two hours Thursday after an invalid block triggered a consensus fault, before the n...

BitGo Cuts Nearly 15% of Staff Six Months After IPO, Refocuses on Stablecoins and AI

Crypto custodian BitGo is cutting approximately 15% of its workforce, CEO Mike Belshe announced Thursday, as the company refocuses on stablecoins, set...

Tether's USDT Closes In on Ether for No. 2 Crypto Spot by Market Cap

USDT has drawn level with ether for the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, briefly overtaking it earlier in June. Rising stablecoin issuance...

Securities Probe Lands on Strategy as MSTR Sinks and STRC Slips Below Par

The Rosen Law Firm opened a securities investigation into Strategy and is soliciting shareholders for a potential class action, as MSTR hit a two-year...

Kalshi Seeks $40B Valuation Seven Weeks After $22B Raise

Prediction-market operator Kalshi is in talks to raise fresh capital at a roughly $40 billion valuation, the Financial Times reported, nearly double t...

Morning Minute: Kraken Eyes 15% Stake in Aave at $385M Valuation

Bitcoin sinks to a fresh 2026 low as the selloff drags on. Kraken makes a major move into DeFi. And BlackBerry is staging a comeback.

Bithumb hit with $136,000 fine over sending user data to wrong overseas platform

South Korea’s privacy watchdog has slapped Bithumb with a 210 million won penalty, roughly $136,000, after uncovering that the exchange routed users’ ...

Crypto firm BitGo trims staff by 15%

BitGo Holdings became the latest name in a long line of crypto firms cutting jobs this year, slashing roughly 15% of its workforce on Thursday. CEO Mi...

Bitcoin Price Prediction: Post Deribit Settlement, BTC Survived the Selling Wave

Bitcoin held near $60,200 after a $10.63B Deribit options expiry cleared with max pain at $70,000. Here's what the post-settlement technicals say abou...

Ethereum Price Prediction: A Forgotten Bull Signal as SharpLink Loads Up on ETH After 8 Month Hiatus

SharpLink Gaming just broke an eight-month silence on Ethereum, and could likely flip its price prediction. Here's why. The post Ethereum Price Predic...

Best Crypto Payment Gateways for Mobile Apps in 2026

A crypto payment gateway is a technology that enables mobile apps to accept digital asset payments by securely transmitting transaction data between a...

Crypto News, June 26: Bitcoin Price Retested $58K, Ethereum Touched Double Bottom, MSTR Crashes, $3Billion Outflow – Time to Stack Sats?

Bitcoin price retested $58K, Ethereum formed a double bottom, while MSTR plunged 10% as $3B in outflows rattled crypto markets. The post Crypto News, ...

DeepSeek-v4-Fable: A Security-Focused AI Agent for CTFs

Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI Predicts Eye-Opening XRP Price by End of 2026

Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI just built a 2026 predicts for XRP price prediction that reads less like a single number and more like three different doors t...

You Will Not Like Where Grok AI Predicts Bitcoin Going in The Next 30 Days

Grok AI just laid out a short fuse Bitcoin price prediction that trades the usual year end horizon for something far more immediate. The model predict...

Aave's Kulechov Disputes Report, Says Firm Won't Sell AAVE at '70%' Discount

The founder said all Aave protocol and GHO revenue flows to the AAVE token and that the brand and software belong to holders, responding to a report t...

Polymarket to Refund Users After Scammers Swipe Millions in Website Exploit

Hackers infiltrated Polymarket’s website via a compromised third-party vendor, the company said, swiping millions in crypto from users.

Invesco Files for Tokenized Stablecoin-Reserve Money Market Fund Built on Superstate Rails

US asset manager files for a GENIUS Act reserve money market fund whose shares are recorded directly on public blockchains, with Superstate as sub-tra...

SBI Holdings Says $289 Million Bitbank Deal Will Make It Japan's Largest Crypto Exchange

SBI Holdings has agreed to a nearly $289 million deal to acquire crypto exchange Bitbank, pending regulatory approval.

Coinbase-Backed Ethereum Network Base Recovers After Block Production Issue

Ethereum layer-2 network Base was down for more than two hours as it ran into an issue with block production ahead of a planned upgrade.

XRP Price Prediction: XRPL Could Be The Backbone of UK Climate Bond

XRP price prediction is not improving, but a formal UK parliamentary proposal names the XRPL as the preferred chain for climate instruments. The post...

Google Gemini AI Predicts Jaw-Dropping Micron Technology Stock Price by End of 2026

Google Gemini AI predicts a massive $1,650 macro run for Micron Technology (MU) by late 2026, driven by a historic 15-year supply deficit. The post Go...

Kraken Institutional partners with Centrifuge to support RWAs in qualified custody, starting with Janus Henderson’s JAAA

This marks the beginning of a broader partnership with Centrifuge to bring more RWAs into Kraken QC. The post Kraken Institutional partners with Centr...

Why Your Entry Price Is Not a Trading Signal

Bitcoin Impact Index (Week 25): Bitcoin Spending Hit a 2-Year Low

More than half of all spent volume comes from coins that are less than two months old, while experienced holders remain largely inactive.

Why Fractional NFTs Unlock $4.93B Daily Trading in 2026 (Platform Guide)

A $1 million NFT sitting in a single wallet generates no liquidity and reaches no market. Fractional ownership changes that — splitting high-value ass...

EVM Mirror: Mind the gap between audit and deployment

Is your onchain contract actually the audited code? For every deployment and upgrade, teams need to verify that the code running onchain is the code t...

Bitcoin To $400,000? Analyst Uses Gold Overlay To Make Bold 2026 Case

A bullish Bitcoin-gold overlay is drawing attention on X, but the $400,000 target depends on a speculative chart comparison.